Doctors Are Not Leaving Illinois Widespread anecdotes and fabrications about doctors fleeing Illinois are contrary to the facts. Source: State Physician Workforce Data Book, Association of American Medical Colleges, Various Editions Despite claims that doctors are leaving Illinois, the number of physicians licensed and engaged in “patient care” in Illinois has never declined.1 Illinois’…

Court Statistics Reveal Civil Lawsuit Filings are Dropping Public disinformation campaigns concocted by front groups for insurance companies and powerful corporations are designed to stoke prejudice and fear, and warp public understanding of how our civil justice system works. By manufacturing a mythical “lawsuit crisis,” they are trying to pressure policymakers into shielding wrongdoers from…

Any “reforms” to the Illinois workers’ compensation system must instead focus on insurers’ unfair profiteering Statement from Illinois Trial Lawyers Association President John P. Scanlon February 14, 2018 Under the guise of “reform,” Gov. Bruce Rauner is seeking changes to our workers’ compensation laws that will shift the responsibility of caring for injured workers away…

The following op-ed by ITLA President John P. Scanlon was published in the Alton Telegraph Wednesday, February 14, 2018. The op-ed was also published in the Moline Dispatch on February 20, 2018 titled “Insurers drive up worker comp costs.” The National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI), a non-profit, non-partisan organization made up of the…